ecoculture, geophilosophy, mediapolitics

polar bears for green blogs

This blog was added to the Directory of Best Green Blogs earlier today. To honor that I thought I would re-post a link to one of my favorite climate change related videos: the plastic bag polar bears emerging from the subway vent and melting back into them (i.e., the Environmental Defense Fund NYC subway ad campaign video, with music by Stars of the Lid).

(But do we still say “Save the Planet” these days? Can someone come up with a better three-word slogan?)

No opposites, just others (‘red’ being the most historically salient one, which is why we hear of ‘red-green coalitions’, and why greens sometimes get accused of being watermelons – green outside, red inside). Anarchists sometimes use ‘black and red’ but, oddly enough, I’ve never heard ‘black and green.’

‘Green’ of course doesn’t work well in the desert, or the tundra, or in the ocean. But it’s caught on pretty widely.

Makes me wonder… is a red light the opposite of a green light? Or just the ‘difference that makes a difference’ (as Bateson would say)…